Former England captain Geoffrey Boycott has slammed the Indian team for their pathetic display with both bat and ball in the humiliating 1-3 Test series loss to England and said the batsmen were like ‘lambs to the slaughter’. ‘India were pathetic when they had to bat and bowl on two seaming, swinging pitches at Old Trafford and The Oval.
Their batsmen lacked application and the technique to handle two of the best Test bowlers in the world in James Anderson and Stuart Broad. On these sort of pitches they are a handful for any batsmen and these talented kids had no experience of such conditions. The Indian batsmen were like lambs to the slaughter. Last winter England supporters did not enjoy our team getting annihilated and embarrassed by Australia with matches finishing early,’ Boycott wrote in his column in The Daily Telegraph. He also doesn’t like the idea of having a five-match series. ‘Back-to-back Tests gave them no county cricket to try to find form or confidence.
Cricket administrators the world over are only interested in how many international days they can cram into any summer season so that they can sell the rights for more and more television money,’ he said. Boycott feels one-sided series are not good advertisement for the game and he wants to see more hard-fought series. ‘It is not a good advert for Test cricket when series are so one-sided. We want to see a hard-fought contest, to enjoy the ebb and flow of a match, swaying from one side to the other, and hopefully England coming out on top at the end. Not just one-sided hammerings,’ he said.
Their batsmen lacked application and the technique to handle two of the best Test bowlers in the world in James Anderson and Stuart Broad. On these sort of pitches they are a handful for any batsmen and these talented kids had no experience of such conditions. The Indian batsmen were like lambs to the slaughter. Last winter England supporters did not enjoy our team getting annihilated and embarrassed by Australia with matches finishing early,’ Boycott wrote in his column in The Daily Telegraph. He also doesn’t like the idea of having a five-match series. ‘Back-to-back Tests gave them no county cricket to try to find form or confidence.
Cricket administrators the world over are only interested in how many international days they can cram into any summer season so that they can sell the rights for more and more television money,’ he said. Boycott feels one-sided series are not good advertisement for the game and he wants to see more hard-fought series. ‘It is not a good advert for Test cricket when series are so one-sided. We want to see a hard-fought contest, to enjoy the ebb and flow of a match, swaying from one side to the other, and hopefully England coming out on top at the end. Not just one-sided hammerings,’ he said.